Europe: WE MUST BE TOUGHER

A glimpse of the might-have-been at Yalta was given by a letter to
General George Marshall from Major General John R. Deane, head of the
U.S. military mission to Moscow from 1943 to 1945. A month before the
Yalta Conference, Secretary of War Henry Stimson forwarded the Deane
letter to President Roosevelt. If, as Stimson probably hoped, Deane's
conclusions had guided U.S. representatives at Yalta, the conference
results might have been far different.

Excerpts from Deane's letter:

"Everyone will agree on the importance of collaboration with Russianow
and in the future. It won't be worth a hoot, however, unless it is
based on...